Testing out WebVelocity. There are some quirks and bugs to work through yet, but overall it’s been a pleasant experience. As always the development team is helpful and quick to respond.
I’ve found the #smalltalk at irc.parcplace.net to be the best source of quick help. James Robertson, Michael Lucas-Smith, and others tend to hang out there quite a bit.
So, what does WebVelocity add? Well, it incorporates Glorp for one — Cincom Smalltalk’s answer to Rails’ ActiveRecord. So, you get ‘free’ persistence, Smalltalk-idiomatic customizable queries, etc.
You can develop your entire application, tests and all, right in the web browser. You can even run your tests from there.
More later… maybe even screenshots (I have to check my agreement with Cincom first).